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Disparate Cruel (from the "Disparates" series, No. 6)
Disparate Cruel (from the "Disparates" series, No. 6)

Disparate Cruel (from the "Disparates" series, No. 6)

Francisco Goya y Lucientes (Spanish, 1746–1828)
Drawn and etched 1816-19; printed posthumously in about 1904
Medium/TechniqueEtching and burnished aquatint on white wove paper, posthumous impression from the second or fifth edition
DimensionsPlatemark: 24.5 x 35.5 cm (9 5/8 x 14 in.)
Sheet:30.0 x 42.0 cm (11 13/16 x 16 9/16 in.)
Credit LineBequest of Eleanor A. Sayre
Accession number2002.515
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ClassificationsPrints
InscriptionsUpper right corner in plate: 6ProvenanceEleanor A. Sayre, Cambridge, MA; bequest to MFA
Soldiers Frightened by a Phantom, from a once bound set of  "Disparates" [also known as Proverbios], plate 2
Francisco Goya y Lucientes
Drawn and etched about 1816-19; printed about 1848- 54
Tampoco (Nor This) "Disasters of War" plate 36
Francisco Goya y Lucientes
1810–14, published 1892
No se puede mirar. (One can't look); from "Los Desastres de la Guerra" (Disasters of War), plate 26
Francisco Goya y Lucientes
Drawn and etched about 1810–14; published 1863
Todos Caerán. (All will fall); Plate 19 from "Los Caprichos"
Francisco Goya y Lucientes
Drawn and etched 1797–98, published 1799
Porque esconderlos? (Why hide them?); Plate 30 from "Los Caprichos"
Francisco Goya y Lucientes
Drawn and etched 1797–98, published 1799